Maybe not quite the pinnacle of Hitchcock's career but definitely in the top five.
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09/21/07
The Birds (1963)
95 %
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Reviews Counted: 40
Fresh: 38
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 8/10
Consensus: Proving once again that build-up is the key to suspense, Alfred Hitchcock successfully turned birds into some of the most terrifying villains in horror history.
Runtime: 2 hrs
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: In THE BIRDS, Alfred Hitchcock's heart-pounding follow-up to PSYCHO, the director couples a tone of rigorous morality with dark humor to create a thriller that begins as a light comedy and ends as an apocalyptic allegory. Tippi Hedren... [More]
Starring: Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Reviews for The Birds
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Top Critic It's fierce and Freudian as well as great cinematic fun, with ample fodder for the amateur psychologist following up on Hitch's tortuous involvement with his leading ladies.
06/24/06
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Perhaps only a director of Hitchcock's caliber can make such a fowl story fly.
11/07/07
Feels like it was made by a brilliant filmmaker who simply felt challenged by the enormity of the task. In that regard, it's close to 100 percent successful.
09/26/07
Hailed as one of Hitchcock's masterpieces by some and despised by others, The Birds is certainly among the director's more complex and fascinating works.
09/21/07
Top Critic
Beneath all of this elaborate feather bedlam lies a Hitch cock-and-bull story that's essentially a fowl ball.
09/21/07
Top Critic Alfred Hitchcock's most abstract film (1963), and perhaps his subtlest, still yielding new meanings and inflections after a dozen or more viewings.
09/21/07
This masterpiece is one of Hitchcock's purest forays into cinema; it's such a complete piece that it even gets by with two mediocre actors.
02/11/06
What sets The Birds apart from the other films in Hitchcock’s incredible ten-year run between 1954 and 1964 is its remarkable chilliness.
11/01/05
Underestimated at the time, this is Hitchcok's last undisputed masterpiece, and a more complex film than Psycho
07/31/05
The Birds is most notable though for turning something completely harmless into an incredible menace -- all with absolutely no explanation.
11/16/04
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